Although there have been lot of studies undertaken in the past on factors affecting life expectancy considering demographic variables, income composition and mortality rates. It was found that affect of immunization and human development index was not taken into account in the past. Also, some of the past research was done considering multiple linear regression based on data set of one year for all the countries. Hence, this gives motivation to resolve both the factors stated previously by formulating a regression model based on mixed effects model and multiple linear regression while considering data from a period of 2000 to 2015 for all the countries. Important immunization like Hepatitis B, Polio and Diphtheria will also be considered. In a nutshell, this study will focus on immunization factors, mortality factors, economic factors, social factors and other health related factors as well. Since the observations this dataset are based on different countries, it will be easier for a country to determine the predicting factor which is contributing to lower value of life expectancy. This will help in suggesting a country which area should be given importance in order to efficiently improve the life expectancy of its population.
Display the ability to build regression models using the skills and discussions from Unit 1 and 2 with the purpose of identifying key relationships, interpreting those relationships, and making good predictions.
Reminder, key here is to tell a good story.
Perform regression analysis
Hypothesis Testing
Interpret the coefficients
Confidence intervals
Practical and statistical significance
- Product the best predictions as possible
- Interpretation is no longer required, hence complexity is no longer an issue
Feature selection to avoid overfitting
Create the model
Compare model 1 vs. model 2
Comment on the differences of the models and whether model 2 brings any benefit
- Nonparametric technique
- kNN or regression trees (select one)
Set of predictors from previous regression: (fill this out)
Model
A brief description of your nonparametric model’s strategy to make a prediction. Include Pros and Cons.
Provide any additional details that you feel might be necessary to report.
Report the test ASE using this nonparametric model so we can see how well it does compared to regression.
Linear correlations: - Schooling vs Income.composition.of.resource - thinness..1.19.years vs thinness.5.9.years - life exp. vs schooling - life exp. vs income - infant death vs under 5 death
removed variables that were correlated
## Country Year Status Life.expectancy
## Afghanistan : 1 Min. :2014 Developed : 32 Min. :48.10
## Albania : 1 1st Qu.:2014 Developing:151 1st Qu.:65.60
## Algeria : 1 Median :2014 Median :73.60
## Angola : 1 Mean :2014 Mean :71.54
## Antigua and Barbuda: 1 3rd Qu.:2014 3rd Qu.:76.85
## Argentina : 1 Max. :2014 Max. :89.00
## (Other) :177
## Adult.Mortality infant.deaths Alcohol percentage.expenditure
## Min. : 1.0 Min. : 0.00 Min. : 0.010 Min. : 0.00
## 1st Qu.: 66.0 1st Qu.: 0.00 1st Qu.: 0.010 1st Qu.: 11.06
## Median :135.0 Median : 2.00 Median : 0.320 Median : 151.10
## Mean :148.7 Mean : 24.56 Mean : 3.271 Mean : 1001.91
## 3rd Qu.:216.5 3rd Qu.: 18.00 3rd Qu.: 6.700 3rd Qu.: 703.21
## Max. :522.0 Max. :957.00 Max. :15.190 Max. :19479.91
## NA's :1
## Hepatitis.B Measles BMI under.five.deaths
## Min. : 2.00 Min. : 0 Min. : 2.00 Min. : 0.00
## 1st Qu.:79.00 1st Qu.: 0 1st Qu.:23.20 1st Qu.: 0.00
## Median :93.00 Median : 13 Median :47.40 Median : 3.00
## Mean :83.12 Mean : 1831 Mean :41.03 Mean : 32.89
## 3rd Qu.:97.00 3rd Qu.: 316 3rd Qu.:59.80 3rd Qu.: 22.00
## Max. :99.00 Max. :79563 Max. :77.10 Max. :1200.00
## NA's :10 NA's :2
## Polio Total.expenditure Diphtheria HIV.AIDS
## Min. : 8.00 Min. : 1.210 Min. : 2.00 Min. :0.100
## 1st Qu.:80.00 1st Qu.: 4.480 1st Qu.:83.00 1st Qu.:0.100
## Median :94.00 Median : 5.840 Median :94.00 Median :0.100
## Mean :84.73 Mean : 6.201 Mean :84.08 Mean :0.682
## 3rd Qu.:97.00 3rd Qu.: 7.740 3rd Qu.:97.00 3rd Qu.:0.400
## Max. :99.00 Max. :17.140 Max. :99.00 Max. :9.400
## NA's :2
## GDP Population thinness..1.19.years
## Min. : 12.28 Min. :4.100e+01 Min. : 0.100
## 1st Qu.: 617.99 1st Qu.:2.869e+05 1st Qu.: 1.500
## Median : 3154.51 Median :1.568e+06 Median : 3.300
## Mean : 10015.57 Mean :2.106e+07 Mean : 4.533
## 3rd Qu.: 8239.95 3rd Qu.:8.080e+06 3rd Qu.: 6.600
## Max. :119172.74 Max. :1.294e+09 Max. :26.800
## NA's :28 NA's :41 NA's :2
## thinness.5.9.years Income.composition.of.resources Schooling
## Min. : 0.100 Min. :0.3450 Min. : 4.90
## 1st Qu.: 1.500 1st Qu.:0.5700 1st Qu.:10.80
## Median : 3.400 Median :0.7220 Median :13.00
## Mean : 4.676 Mean :0.6884 Mean :12.89
## 3rd Qu.: 6.600 3rd Qu.:0.7960 3rd Qu.:14.90
## Max. :27.400 Max. :0.9450 Max. :20.40
## NA's :2 NA's :10 NA's :10
## Life.expectancy.1
## Length:183
## Class :character
## Mode :character
##
##
##
##
## [1] "Country" "Year"
## [3] "Status" "Life.expectancy"
## [5] "Adult.Mortality" "infant.deaths"
## [7] "Alcohol" "percentage.expenditure"
## [9] "Hepatitis.B" "Measles"
## [11] "BMI" "under.five.deaths"
## [13] "Polio" "Total.expenditure"
## [15] "Diphtheria" "HIV.AIDS"
## [17] "GDP" "Population"
## [19] "thinness..1.19.years" "thinness.5.9.years"
## [21] "Income.composition.of.resources" "Schooling"
## [23] "Life.expectancy.1"
Forward, backward, and stepwise regressions were run and all 3 resulted with the same 4 significant variables.
Variables - Adult.Mortality
- Total.expenditure - HIV.AIDS - Income.composition.of.resources
##
## Call:
## lm(formula = Life.expectancy ~ Adult.Mortality + Total.expenditure +
## HIV.AIDS + Income.composition.of.resources + Life.expectancy.1,
## data = df1_complete)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -9.7539 -1.5929 0.0074 1.6631 10.6939
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 50.76505 2.32027 21.879 < 2e-16 ***
## Adult.Mortality -0.01700 0.00378 -4.496 1.56e-05 ***
## Total.expenditure 0.39230 0.10971 3.576 0.000497 ***
## HIV.AIDS -0.55729 0.24900 -2.238 0.026985 *
## Income.composition.of.resources 31.75821 2.96054 10.727 < 2e-16 ***
## Life.expectancy.1Low -2.90429 1.08518 -2.676 0.008441 **
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 3.029 on 125 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.8809, Adjusted R-squared: 0.8761
## F-statistic: 184.9 on 5 and 125 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
##
## Call:
## lm(formula = Life.expectancy ~ Adult.Mortality + infant.deaths +
## Alcohol + percentage.expenditure + Hepatitis.B + Measles +
## BMI + under.five.deaths + Polio + Total.expenditure + Diphtheria +
## HIV.AIDS + GDP + Population + thinness..1.19.years + thinness.5.9.years +
## Income.composition.of.resources + Schooling + Life.expectancy.1,
## data = df1_complete)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -9.6206 -1.7993 0.1196 1.4778 9.0945
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 5.416e+01 3.441e+00 15.739 < 2e-16 ***
## Adult.Mortality -1.707e-02 4.062e-03 -4.201 5.39e-05 ***
## infant.deaths 5.084e-02 5.664e-02 0.897 0.371396
## Alcohol 5.116e-02 9.458e-02 0.541 0.589625
## percentage.expenditure 3.714e-04 4.545e-04 0.817 0.415602
## Hepatitis.B -8.781e-03 2.818e-02 -0.312 0.755941
## Measles -2.284e-05 4.748e-05 -0.481 0.631396
## BMI -7.922e-03 1.954e-02 -0.406 0.685872
## under.five.deaths -3.548e-02 3.892e-02 -0.912 0.363915
## Polio -7.978e-03 2.073e-02 -0.385 0.701115
## Total.expenditure 3.129e-01 1.243e-01 2.518 0.013221 *
## Diphtheria 2.522e-02 3.397e-02 0.742 0.459403
## HIV.AIDS -5.789e-01 2.628e-01 -2.202 0.029702 *
## GDP -2.934e-05 6.516e-05 -0.450 0.653446
## Population -2.321e-09 6.646e-09 -0.349 0.727600
## thinness..1.19.years 1.896e-02 2.296e-01 0.083 0.934327
## thinness.5.9.years -1.528e-01 2.261e-01 -0.676 0.500610
## Income.composition.of.resources 2.717e+01 7.106e+00 3.824 0.000217 ***
## Schooling 2.068e-02 2.732e-01 0.076 0.939815
## Life.expectancy.1Low -3.215e+00 1.303e+00 -2.468 0.015113 *
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 3.12 on 111 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.8877, Adjusted R-squared: 0.8685
## F-statistic: 46.2 on 19 and 111 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
##
## Call:
## lm(formula = Life.expectancy ~ Adult.Mortality + Total.expenditure +
## HIV.AIDS + Income.composition.of.resources + Life.expectancy.1,
## data = df1_complete)
##
## Residuals:
## Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
## -9.7539 -1.5929 0.0074 1.6631 10.6939
##
## Coefficients:
## Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
## (Intercept) 50.76505 2.32027 21.879 < 2e-16 ***
## Adult.Mortality -0.01700 0.00378 -4.496 1.56e-05 ***
## Total.expenditure 0.39230 0.10971 3.576 0.000497 ***
## HIV.AIDS -0.55729 0.24900 -2.238 0.026985 *
## Income.composition.of.resources 31.75821 2.96054 10.727 < 2e-16 ***
## Life.expectancy.1Low -2.90429 1.08518 -2.676 0.008441 **
## ---
## Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
##
## Residual standard error: 3.029 on 125 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.8809, Adjusted R-squared: 0.8761
## F-statistic: 184.9 on 5 and 125 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16